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What's the difference...

posted 8 years ago by lgorenc
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"Tell me what's the difference between us and them" asks Sheen. "Because we live here" says Swayze. Remember that next time you call someone an insurgent.

[–] DaveR011 8 years ago

Note that the word "insurgent" has no positive or negative connotations by itself. It's the words that tend to go with it these days, like "Islamist", "extremist", "terrorist", "ISIS", "Taliban" and so on that make people think it means something bad. It's notable that those people tend to spend nearly all their time and effort fighting the people living in their own countries rather than foreign invaders looking to install totalitarian dictatorships.

[–] jmrex 8 years ago

Notable, indeed.

[–] Ultrashiver 8 years ago

Very well said!

[–] LesterFester 8 years ago

by lgorenc » Mon Jan 25 2016 ... "Tell me what's the difference between us and them" asks Sheen. "Because we live here" says Swayze.

Although this bit of dialogue was very short I thought it was the worst utterance by any of the "American" characters. At the very least the writers could have wrote, "we fight, because we live free or die".

[–] Hendry_William_French 8 years ago

I take it you're a fan of communism?

Did you engage hostiles? I *vaporized* hostiles.

[–] dvdfreak66 8 years ago

I think when it comes to seeing people as terrorist, the remake did a good job in mirroring the US's invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan and kinda makes you wonder if the terrorist were the ones trying to get their country back or the one who said "I wish I would have killed more if it would have saved American lives", ignoring the fact we were the invaders. It kinda showed how many terrorist acts we would commit if someone invaded us and we wanted our country back. Saying that, that example is the only good thing the remake did, other than that it wasn't very good. The original is one of my favorite films, I mean it did make me hide under my bed every time I heard a helicopters until I was 11/12 but still a great flick.